Release the hounds!
Driving north on Lake Shore Drive at 6:15 p.m. today I noticed that the lakefront path between Oak Street Beach and the North Avenue pedestrian bridge [...]
Rogers Park conversions – from a crack house to a tire store
The last ingenious conversion project we saw in Rogers Park was the conversion of an old crack house at 1522 W Jonquil Terrace into the gorgeous Baybe [...]
Distinctive Maoism comes to Lincoln Park
It could be a creative cross-marketing effort, though we suspect it was sabotage. Either way, We were shocked and dismayed (ok, a little amused too) y [...]
How a FSBO gets on the MLS
An ex-employee, who's selling his own condo, e-mailed asking for recommendations on how to get his property in the multiple listing service.
I was sc [...]
Redlining the no-closing-costs sleaze-o-meter
Dan Smith, who purports to be from Lenox Financial posted a belated comment on my earlier post on Lenox Financial's WBBM radio commercials. You know t [...]
156 West Superior will be unveiled soon
This is 156 West Superior, a new-construction project by Ranquist Development in River North.
It's apparently creating a buzz among architecture and [...]
Theater District Lofts continue rebuilding Winthrop
Yesterday we told you about the bargains at Edgewater Terrace on the 5900 block of once-notorious North Winthrop Ave. Uptown Real Estate looks to con [...]
The pink beacon of Sheridan Road: Edgewater Beach Apartments
It's our own little taste of South Beach right here in Chicago, and given the Midwestern sensibility that permeates the city more than any of us would [...]
Buy a house, buy a school district at Bradley Place
New single-family homes have become rare in the city, much less single-families in the Alexander Graham Bell school district. The elementary school is [...]
Woodlawn's random retail
Speaking of Woodlawn, as we were in an earlier posting - when you consider that the neighborhood has hardly any restaurants and a dearth of retail opt [...]
Foodies weep in Woodlawn
Next time we hear residents of somewhere like Rogers Park or the South Loop groaning about the lack of restaurant options in their little burg, we're [...]
N Sheridan Rd: beachfront living, mainland prices
Often thought of as tatty hinterlands--when thought of at all--N Sheridan Rd boasts several buildings that once represented Chicago's highest standard [...]
100K goes a long way on Winthrop, which has come a long way
Shopping for a new condo in the five-figures can be depressing, especially when all those tantalizing, multi-million-dollar homes are constantly being [...]
Dude! I found an awesome condo in RedEye
Dude! Don't you think that free newspaper RedEye, like, totally rocks? Judging by the condo development ads that keep appearing in the Chicago Trib's [...]
No fear of intimacy for buyers at new Lake View high-rise
Sedgwick Properties, the developer of the new, 140-unit Park View East, at 828 W Grace St in Lake View, promises "this quiet and sophisticated setting [...]
Avoid ugly streets – travel in the right direction
We've noticed a distinct pattern in Chicago and its suburbs: streets that don't run on a true east-west or north-south axis have, on average, uglier b [...]
1st Chicago agents syndicate free Housing Newswire content
Robert Darrow and Steve West, of @properties, are the first Chicago real estate agents to incorporate news from the nifty new wire service, HousingNew [...]
Millennium Park bean update
Close to three years after it was unveiled, Anish Kapoor's monumental sculpture, Cloud Gate, will be completely open to the public. City officials s [...]